Bush Copies Hitler

Hitler used the 1938
burning of the Reichstag (parliament) building by a deranged Dutchman to declare a
War on Terrorism and establish his legitimacy as a leader
(even though he hadn’t won a majority in the previous election.)

You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in
history, he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded
by national media. This fire he said, his voice trembling
with emotion, is the beginning. He use the occasion —
a sign from God he called it — to declare an all-out
war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said who traced their origins
to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds
in their religion.

Two weeks later the first prison for terrorists was built-in Orangianberg, holding the
first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. In a national outburst of patriotism,
the nation’s flag was everywhere, even printed in newspapers, suitable for
display.

Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, in the name of combatting terrorism and
fighting the philosophy he said had spawned it, the nation’s now popular leader had
pushed through legislation that suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech,
privacy and habeas corpus. Police could now intercept mail and wire tap phones;
suspected terrorists could be imprisoned without specific charges and without access to
their lawyers; and police could sneak into people’s homes without warrants if the
cases involved terrorism.

To get his patriotic Decree on the Protection of People and
State passed, over the objections of concerned legislators and civil libertarians,
Hitler agreed to put a four-year sunset provision on it: if the national emergency
provoked by the terrorist attack was over by then, the people’s freedoms and rights
would be restored and the police agencies would be rerestrained.

Within the first month after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a political
adviser, Hitler brought a formerly obscure word into common usage. Instead of referring
to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as the the
Fatherland. As hope, the people’s hearts swelled with pride and the seeds
of an us-versus- them mentality were sown. Our land was the
homeland, citizens thought: all others were simply foreign lands.

Within year of the terrorist attack, Hitler’s advisers determined the
nation’s local police and federal agencies lacked the clear communication and
overall coordinated administration necessary to deal with the terrorist threat facing the
nation, including those citizens who were of Middle Eastern ancestry and thus probably
terrorist sympathisers. He proposed a single new national agency to protect the security
of the Fatherland, consolidating the actions of dozens of previously independent police,
border and investigative agencies under a single powerful leader.

Most Americans remember his Office of Fatherland Security (known as the
Reichssicherheitshaumptamt and the Schutzstaffel) simply by is most famous agency’s
initials: the SS.

Perhaps more important, Hitler invited his supporters in industry into the halls of
government to help build his new detention camps, his new military and his new empire,
which was to herald a thousand years of peace. Industry and government worked
hand-in-glove in a new type of pseudo-democracy first proposed by Mussolini and sustained
by war.

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I find it uncanny the way Bush has been step by step doing the same things as Hitler
used early in his career to assume more and more dictatorial power. I have to assume Bush
is consciously repeating Hitler’s plan that worked brilliantly for him.